"Don't they come out here on their own...?" Tony asked, realizing he knew very little of the mothcat's lives once they were out of his sight. The library was still full of them, they couldn't have been getting into too much trouble and must have been feeding themselves somehow. Still, he graciously did a wide, lazy turn, making even the animal in the grass lift its head attentively, ready to make its attack once more.

"More fundamental than that, bigger. Alchemists who didn't even have skates yet and thought it was okay to eat lead, knew that there was a fundamental building block, the basis of all things and from all things, and if that was true, then there must be a way to control the form. They were crazy, but they were right. You know what a grapefruit is?" Maybe Omega felt the threat of being turned into a grapefruit through science was menacing enough to make up for what had turned into a stroll and cultural exchange.